STRATEGIC ALERT Service

On Jan. 1, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was inaugurated for the third time as President of Brazil, having previously served for two terms from 2003-2010. Since his disgraced predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, had fled the country on Dec. 30 for Florida, Lula and his Vice President Geraldo Alckmin were sworn in by the presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the […]

Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) posted once again on Dec. 20 a list of Western figures it charges with promoting “Russian propaganda”. Number one on the list is Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and head of the international Schiller Institute. The people named are accused of such alleged “crimes” as publicly advocating a peaceful settlement to the conflict, pointing to NATO’s role […]

A group of political and social leaders from around the world issued an open letter to Pope Francis on Dec. 19, supporting his offer to use the venue of the Vatican for immediate negotiations between Russia and Ukraine for a diplomatic settlement of the war. Coming off an organizing process among current and former legislators that was initiated two months […]

FLASH: The news has just come in that Ukrainian President Zelensky is making a visit to Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 21. It remains to be seen what effect discussions there will have on the course of the war in Ukraine. From the United States, there have been two significant interventions worth noting in favor of negotiations on Ukraine. One is […]

Last week, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank each raised their rates by half a point. The Fed increase is the seventh in a row, bringing the two main rates to 4.25% and 4.50%, while the ECB is at its fourth increase in a row, up to 2.50% and 2.75%. The Bank of England is also in on […]

Radical geopolitics has put Germany into a precarious situation in terms of energy supplies. Replacing the gas flows from Russia by alternatives is turning out to be extremely difficult in the medium term, and impossible in the near future. All the “alternatives” touted by the German government in its hectic push for diversification of sources, will first of all not […]

So far, the “Qatargate” scandal has focused on bribes given to members of the European Parliament in exchange for whitewashing Qatar’s human rights record, in particular its labor policies. The aim of the whitewashing was not only to allow the World Cup to proceed smoothly, but also to build a long-term relationship with the European Union. However, some questions in […]

On March 9 of this year, the European Parliament passed a resolution to condemn members and parties that receive funds from foreign entities and parties, with a focus on Russia and on the Italian Lega, among others. The authors of the text are the same factions under investigation today in the Qatargate. The resolution was based on a report by […]

Forty nine African heads of state and government gathered in Washington, Dec. 13-15 for the second U.S.-Africa Summit. All the participants, and all other world leaders, were well aware that President Biden had decided to organize the conference in order to build political traction in Africa as a counter to China, in particular, and secondarily to Russia. While U.S. officials […]

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter devoted his Dec. 14 Scott Ritter Show to the “Impact of Sanctions on the Russian Economy”. His guest was well-known Russian economist Mikhail Khazin, who made American economist Lyndon LaRouche a key feature of his remarks. Mikhail Khazin headed the credit department of Russia’s Ministry of Economics, 1995-97, and was deputy chief of economics […]